showing your age...

[Catlady711]

Ok so it's not cigarettes, gas, or movie prices, but when my mom delivered me in the 70's it cost her $3,000 to be in the hospital for 3 days and she had 3 different doctors checking in on her.

Fast forward the the mid 1980's when I had my tonsills out, 3 hours outpatient basis = $3,000

I can't imagine what either of those would cost today.

[Willow Oak]

Ok so it's not cigarettes, gas, or movie prices, but when my mom delivered me in the 70's it cost her $3,000 to be in the hospital for 3 days and she had 3 different doctors checking in on her.

Fast forward the the mid 1980's when I had my tonsills out, 3 hours outpatient basis = $3,000

I can't imagine what either of those would cost today.

Okay you just opened up a whole 'nother can o' worms (as we say in Missippi) now.

One June 23 of last year I went for a Thallium stress test at a hospital in Memphis. I had been complaining of back pains -- pretty severe back pains -- and the doc lined me up for the test as a precautionary measure.

I arrived for the test on Monday morning, and ...

..., I was not released from the hospital until Wednesday evening.

The whole time I was there (mostly in ICU) I kept trying to get them to let me go home. The had performed a procedure on me, and after all was said and done I could not see what all the hullabalo was about.

A few weeks later the EOB's started to arrive. Good thing I have insurance: the total hospital and doctor bill went well over six figures. Turns out I had a 99% occlusion of the LAD, the dreaded "widow maker." I survived the exact same condition that killed Tim Russert. It just so happens I was on the treadmill -- already nuclear (or is it nucular?) -- when BAM!

Anyways, that's the whole can o' worms.